Kittens is a DJ who teaches girls to DJ. She told The Hundreds “being open [about my personal life] can help other people. Like, I can help young gay kids who don’t have a role model or young girls that don’t have a role model or women who want to DJ or do whatever.”

Lady Sovereign singlehandedly gave us the best tool for dealing with haters in her hit song, “Love Me Or Hate Me.” She sings, “love me or hate me, it’s still an obsession / Love me or hate me, that is the question / If you love me then thank you / If you hate me then fuck you!”

This folk singer just released a new album, available for purchase here. On being a gay role model, Carlile told Out: “I hope that they’re able to look to me and say that I was a role model and helped them get somewhere that makes [them] happy with themselves.”

Each Lauren in this Brooklyn duo has a successful independent music career. From their Facebook page: “CREEP crystallized from the plaintive calm, tainted emotions, and moonlit gloom of predawn New York. The moments just before night turns to morning, when the walk home throws the hours before it in stark, paralyzing relief and the air is charged with every thought imaginable.”